GK Current Affairs

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Current Affairs

• Our website gkexams.com provide Current Affairs
  is defined as events or political or social
  interest and importance happening in the world at
  the present time. basically , this means that
  Current Affairs is an avenue of broadcast
  journalism that serves to inform its readers on
  events of political or social interest that are
  occurring presently or have happened at a very
  recent time, and various discussions, takes and
  perceptions of the same events. It often contains
  a through analysis by various important people.
  Although Current Affairs is a wide part of all
  types of publications, as various people write
  about occurring events or about their opinions
  and take on various events, the most widespread
  and popular method of spreading news of Current
  Affairs is the Internet.

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Current Affairs Topics

• Currents Affairs reports on everyday events in a
  variety of field like political, industrial,
  finance, social and Administrative controversy,
  Scientific and Technological advancements,
  innovations and inventions, along with diplomatic
  and international events, and generally is
  present in all areas, including areas which are
  not deemed important enough by Newspapers,
  magazines or such publications to report on.
• The reach of Current Affairs is quite wide the
  areas where the events occur can be anywhere in
  the world, including First world Nations like the
  U.S. or U.K. developing nations like some Latin
  America ones, with a special focus on the events
  in third world countries.

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Current Affairs (news format)

• Current Affairs isa genre of broadcast
  journalism.
• This differs from regular news broadcasts that
  place emphasis on news reports presented for
  simple presentation as soon as possible, often
  with a minimum of analysis. It is also different
  from the news magazine show format, in that the
  events are discussed immediately.

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Current Affairs Use

• Current Affairs is the venue of reporting the
  information that almost the entirely of the world
  is interested in. Current Affairs plays a big
  role in education. In the current scenario in
  india, all kinds of competitive examination have
  Current Affairs as a part of it the scope of
  which can be anything from administrative news to
  Election results and to the immense enjoyment of
  some, the results of sports matches. The time
  frame of questions being asked can be from events
  that happened the past month or even stretching
  back to events from past years.

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Current Affairs Exams

• Current Affairs is a large part of most exams, at
  all levels of education, whether one is talking
  about the simple school Examinations, the
  gut-wrenching college examination, the
  maddeningly tough university exams, and even the
  vexing competitive exams. While most schools keep
  current affairs as an entirely separate subject ,
  colleges keep a healthy portion of currents
  affairs in almost all semester and other exams.
  And we can never forget that it is important for
  competitive examinations such as Bank, Railways,
  SSC and UPSC where at-least one-fourth weight is
  given current affairs.
• The point of current affairs in the curriculum of
  most examinations is a quite simple one the
  objective is to best how much the participant is
  up-to-date on recent events, and also to test the
  information gathering ability of the participant
  can be seen in the level of difficulty of
  questions one is able to answer.

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• Current Affairs is also included in exams needed
  for jobs, like banking exams, happenings in a
  country can have sudden any varied effects on the
  market, with the prices of stocks.
• Current Affairs 2019gt
• National Current Affairs
• State Current Affairs
• International Affairs
• Economy Banking
• Science Technology
• Environment Current Affairs
• Bills Acts in Current Affairs
• Defence Current Affairs
• Persons in News

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• Places in News
• Awards Honours
• Sports Current Affairs
• Art Culture in Current Affairs
• Government Schemes
• UPSC
• CA Category PDF E-Books

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Politics Governance Current Affairs - 2019

• Examplesgt
• Government Approves Monthly Pension Schemes for
  Tradersgt (1 June, 2019)The union Cabinet chaired
  by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved
  RS. 3000 monthly pension scheme for small retail
  traders and shopkeepers after they attain the age
  of 60 years.
• Salient Features of Schemegt
• 1. Aboutgt under the scheme all small
  shopkeepers, retail traders and self-employed
  persons are assured a minimum of RS. 3000 monthly
  pension after attaining 60 years of 60 years.

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• 2. Beneficiarygt The new pension scheme that
  offers pension coverage to the trading community
  will cover 3 crore small retail traders and
  shopkeepers.
• 3. Eligibilitygt All small shopkeepers,
  self-employed persons, and retail traders aged
  between 18-40 years and with Goods and service
  Tax (GST) turnover below RS. 1.5 crore can enrol
  for pension scheme.
• 4. Enrollmentgt The scheme is based on
  self-declaration as no documents are required
  except bank account and aadhar card. Also, the
  interested persons can enrol themselves via more
  that 3,25,000 Common Services Centres(CSC) spread
  across india.
• 5. Government Contributiongt The Central
  Government will make matching contribution (same
  amount as subscriber contribution)i.e. Equal
  amount as subsidy into subscribers pension
  account every month.

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• 6. Significancegt Since ages india has a rich
  tradition of trade and commerce and our traders
  make a strong contribution to indias economic
  growth. Therefore, cabinet decision will benefit
  the trading community. This pension scheme is a
  part of Prime Ministers vision to provide a
  robust architecture of universal social security.
• PM Modi reconstitutes NITI Aayoggt Prime Minister
  Narendra Modi approved the reconstitution of
  government of indias policy think tank NITI
  Aayog (or National Institution for Transforming
  India.) The decision was taken ahead of first
  meeting of NITI Aayog s governing council
  scheduled on june 15. (June 7, 2019)

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• Key Highlightsgt
• On 5 june, PM will chair 5th meeting of NITI
  Aayog s Governing Council (first governing
  council meeting under new NDA government) to
  discuss various issues concerning
  agriculture,water management and security.
• Rajiv Kumar will continue his designation as Vice
  Chairman of NITI Aayog.
• Other members including V K Saraswat, Ramesh
  Chand and Dr. V K Paul were also reinstated
  barring economist Bibek Debroy.
• Amitabh Kant, who served as CEO at NITI Aayog (in
  NDA-I) is not mentioned in reconstitution.
• The NITI Aayog constitution is as follows-
• Chairperson- Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• Vice-Chairperson- Dr. Rajiv Kumar

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• Full- Time Members- includes (1) Shri V.K.
  Saraswat. (2) Prof. Ramesh Chand, (3) Dr. V.K.
  Paul
• Ex-officio Members (4)- includes (1) Rajnath
  Singh (Defence Minister), (2) Amit Shah (Home
  Affairs Minister), (3) Nirmala Sitharaman
  (finance Minister and Corporate Affairs
  Minister), (4) Narendra Singh Tomar (Rural
  Development Minister, Panchayati Raj Minister and
  Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister)
• Special Invites to NITI Aayog (4) - includes (1)
  Nitin Gadkari (Road Transport and Highways
  minister and MSME Minister), (2) Piyush Goyal
  (Railway and Commerce Industry Minister), (3)
  Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot (Social Justice and
  Empowerment Minister) and (4) Rao Inderjit Singh
  (Minister of State (Independent Charge) of
  Ministry of Statistics and programme Implemention
  and Minister of State (I/C) of Ministry of
  Planning).

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States Current Affairs 2019

• Examplesgt
• Punjab bans Online Food Delivery without Hygiene
  Ratinggt(May 31, 2019)
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• the Punjab government has decided to make it
  mandatory for all online food aggregators to
  ensure that food supplied by them should
  compulsorily have hygiene rating as per Food
  Safety and Standards Authority of india (FSSAI)
  guidelines.

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Key Highlights

• Reason The online food order and door to door
  delivery mechanism of food supply has created a
  physical disconnect between consumers and food
  maker. Therefore, the onus of ensuring quality of
  food and that conditions under which food is
  prepared are hygienic has shifted to intermediate
  food delivery mechanism.
• About keeping this in mind, Punjab government
  has issued a direction to all online aggregators
  that all online order and supply companies should
  display hygiene rating of all food business
  operators registered or affiliated with them.

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• Measures Punjabs Food and Drug Administration
  has sensitized companies operational in Punjab
  including Zomato, Swiggy, Uber Eats and Food
  Panda on the issue and also directed them to get
  the hygiene rating done of all the food business
  operators (FBOs) registered with them.
• Condition The terms put forward includes that
  only those FBO s who are at higher level of
  hygiene rating (bearing 3 or more smilies),
  should be allowed to supply food under the online
  food orders-delivery mechanism.

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• About Food Safety and Standards Authority of
  Indiagt
• It is an autonomous body established in 2011
  under the Union Ministry of Health Family
  Welfare. It is responsible for protecting and
  promoting public health via regulations and
  supervisions of food safety.
• It is headed by a non-executive Chairperson who
  is appointed by central Government.

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